PAD Day 28

Today's dual prompts: (1) Write a "color" poem, and (2) write a shadorma.  A "shadorma" is allegedly a form that originated in Spain (though it's more likely an invented contemporary form) of six lines with syllable counts of 3,5,3,3,7 and 5.  As such, it's a similar discipline to haiku or tanka.  So here's a string of shadormas I wrote on the topic of color:

The Color of Azalea

In my yard

an azalea bush

celebrates

my birthday

with fireworks of purple

flowers every year.

Yet "purple"

doesn't do justice

to its hue -

amethyst,

perhaps (that's my niece's name)

or heliotrope.

Maybe plum

(no, that's way too deep),

lavender,

violet

or lilac (those don't work, they're

other flowers' names).

Puce or mauve?

Both are ugly words.

No artist,

just a guy,

I'll be content with "purple" -

it suits me just fine.